Putin says Moscow will retaliate if West helps Ukraine attack deep into Russia

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Moscow, – President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia’s Ministry of Defence United States and was working on various ways to respond to nato colleagues help ukraine to penetrate deeply Russia with long distance western missiles,
The 2-1/2-year-old Ukraine war has led to the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West since the depths of the Cold War, and Russian officials say the war is now entering its most dangerous phase.
Russia has been signaling to the United States and its allies for weeks that if they allowed Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory with Western-supplied missiles, Moscow would consider it a major incident.
Putin said on September 12 that Western approval for such a move would mean “direct involvement of NATO countries, the United States and European countries in the war in Ukraine” because NATO military infrastructure and personnel would be involved in the targeting. And firing of missiles.
Putin said it was too early to say how Russia would react to such a move but Moscow would have to respond accordingly and various options were being considered.
“(The Russian Defense Ministry) is thinking about how to respond to possible long-range attacks on Russian territory, it will offer a variety of responses,” Putin told Russian state TV’s top Kremlin reporter, Pavel Zarubin. “
Russia is advancing into eastern Ukraine at its fastest pace since the first months of the invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Is pleading with Western countries to allow Kiev to strike deep into Russia with Western missiles.
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The United States has not said publicly whether it would allow Ukraine to attack Russia, but some American officials are deeply skeptical that doing so would make a significant difference in the war.
Ukrainian forces already strike deep into Russia on a regular basis with long-range drones.
Putin, who ordered thousands of troops to send thousands of troops to Ukraine in 2022 after eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine, calls the war a fight between Russia and the decadent West, which he says is responsible for the 1991 Soviet collapse. After this, Russia’s interests were ignored.
Ukraine and its Western allies say Putin has launched an imperial-style war against its smaller neighbor and has repeatedly said that if Russia wins the war it will embolden autocratic countries around the world.
Just weeks before the US presidential election, Putin changed Russia’s nuclear doctrine, in what the Kremlin said was an effort to signal Russia’s concern over Western discussions about missile attacks from Ukraine.
Asked if the West had listened to Russia’s warnings, Putin told Zarubin: “I hope they have. Because, of course, we have to make some decisions for ourselves as well.”
Putin said that only NATO officers would be able to fire such weapons at Russia and that they would need to use Western satellite data to aim the weapons, so the question really is “will they find themselves able to launch a strike deep into Russian territory.” Will you allow it to be done or not? What a question.”
American officials say the United States does not want to escalate the conflict.
It is unclear how the new US president will deal with the war: Former US President Donald Trump has said he would end the Ukraine war, while Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris says she will continue to support Ukraine.